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Divining history
Combines a deep knowledge of theological motifs with theory of history, providing a unique exploration of how such motifs have shaped the Western view of history. Combines a deep knowledge of anti-Jewish theological motifs in the Christian tradition with extensive knowledge of contempora...
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'city of the future'
First ethnographic monograph of Astana; Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist (‘social-constructivist’) approaches to place and space in social...
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Made in egypt
A ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt. Examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force. Power, resistance, indiv...
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Designing worlds
Designing Worlds responds to the growing literature on global design history and national identity in design, and furthers the debate on this central issue. Designing Worlds contributes an original and innovative reassessment of the role of national histories within a global context. ...
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Narratives in motion
The articulation between historical events and journalistic narratives. The focus on a peripheral case (Portugal), traditionally disregarded in the studies of modernism and modernization. The focus on newspaper readership and public participation of public events. The relation be...
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Food research
A broad-based review of biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods.
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Xenocracy
History of British colonialism in the Mediterranean New sources for the study of Greek history and history of colonialism Comparative perspective with other colonies A history of the Ionian State that is absent from historiography
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Oikos and market
Describes how the ideals of self-sufficiency shape economic activity in many post-socialist areas. Six comparative studies of post-socialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy. Examines how economies depend not only on the macr...
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Leaving footprints in the taiga
Examines the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate recent environmental and social changes in post-Soviet Siberia. Describes strategies that play a central role in Orochen cosmology.
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Children and youth on the front line
War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numb...
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Breaking boundaries
Explores the applicability of the concept of liminality to a variety of concrete social and political problems. Examines case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, Describes how liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for under...
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People, money and power in the economic crisis
Based on empirical research. Combines empirical research with an analysis of wider processes of social, economic and political change. Comes out of an innovative network of scholars associated with the Human Economy Programme.
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Matters of testimony
The first book-length examination of the significance of the Scrolls of Auschwitz as Holocaust testimony. Discusses the unique insights the Scrolls provide and challenges the idea that most significant Holocaust testimony was produced retrospectively. Examines testimony from both Eas...
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A world of populations
Regional diversity, emphasis on local situations The essays in this collection provide a new approach to demography: history of knowledge The text is among the few publications in the field that cover the whole 20th century
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Reflecting on reflexivity
Approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life an...
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Tourism and informal encounters in cuba
Explores touristic encounters and relationships from the perspectives both of locals and of tourists. Examines and compares a range of relationships, from tourism harassment to market exchange, hospitality, friendship, festive and sexual relationships. Reopens, in a new light, the ke...
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Jewish medical resistance in the holocaust
This book is a unique study into the work of Jewish doctors in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust The text utilises archival material and memoirs of Holocaust survivors to explore an unknown chapter of the Holocaust The volume illustrates how human morality can surv...
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Anxious histories
This book explores Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. Opens up once again for...
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Waterworlds
The book sees the making and unmaking of people’s lives through the shared lens of water, yielding great comparative potential across different regions and approaches. Through the notion of waterworlds, the book addresses human and non-human actors as mutually constitutive. The book ...
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Violent becomings
It is theoretically original in its insistence on radical reading of state formation as related to violence and irreducible to the formal state apparatus. It is a long-term study of transformations – building on fieldwork from 1998 onwards – which surpasses a number of other relevant stu...
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Flexible capitalism
Explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. Introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary ec...
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The state we're in
Investigates the reasons behind the current disillisionment in democratic statecraft. Explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality. A must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
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Nimby is beautiful
Offers new perspective on "Not in my Back Yard" protests. Demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Argues that NIMBY movements can have a positive and...
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The women's liberation movement
This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and co...
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Beyond the divide
Focus on transnational intra-European Cold War connections. Comprehensive approach towards culture as an area of Cold War beyond the US and USSR. Merging of national perspectives into a comprehensive picture of the European situation during the Cold War. East-West interaction dur...
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Protest in hitler's “national community”
Presents studies of public dissent inside the Third Reich. Examines circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response.
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Conceptual history in the european space
The volume is the first comprehensive revisiting of conceptual history on a European scale It is also the first volume to consider the spatial and temporal dimensions of making comparisons of concepts across the whole of Europe. The volume also brings to bear diverse methods of analy...
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Stories make the world
Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories...
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Different germans, many germanies
Complicating academic discourses and scholarly analyses of Germany Pluralizing popular perceptions of Germany Contributing new knowledge on postwar Germany Combining historical with political and cultural approaches to Germany
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The agendas of tibetan refugees
Comprehensive and exhaustive history of the installation in exile of the Tibetan refugees. New light on the relationship between the Tibetan Refugees and their Western patrons. Explains its success through the negotiation, strategies and work of the Tibetan Refugees. Description of a...
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Breaking rocks
This book presents an ethnography of spectacle and deceit. It provides a vivid description of life and meaning in one of the fastest growing mega cities in Africa/the global south. It makes a series of innovative connections between power, economics and culture.
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At home in the okavango
First anthropological study of the white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Rare insights into the controversial practice of safari hunting, which has since been banned in Botswana. Contribution to theory surrounding autochthony/indigeneity.
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Children in the holocaust and its aftermath
The interviews conducted with Holocaust child survivors and war children were done in the 80s and early 90s therefore these are the first interviews many gave The collection also includes interviews conducted immediately after liberation Various qualitative analytic methods are used ...
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The forest people without a forest
Examines how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions. Investigates how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions.
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The man from the third row
The first book in English about Hasse Ekman. Discusses 1940s Swedish cinema, which has previously been overlooked outside of Sweden. The first book, in any language, that discusses the whole of Ekman’s career and places it in a social and political context.
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The devil's wheels
Motorization: Focuses on the motorcycle not the car as the most important cultural commodity of early motorization in Germany. Gender and Consumption: Focuses on masculinity not only femininity in exploring how motorization as a practice of consumption shaped gender. Extends and amen...
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Conjuring hope
Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the exp...
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Up, down, and sideways
It is the definitive work summarizing and applying Laura Nader’s anthropological theories. It provides contemporary anthropological examples of "studying up, down, and sideways". It demonstrates how anthropology can be used to address urgent 21st century challenges. It addresses ...
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Vehicles
A collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures Examines key issues in the study of objects, material culture and techniques Provides a new perspective on how vehicles are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics...
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Europe in crisis
The volume shows how conceptions of and projects for Europe were transformed by contemporaries’ experiences of crisis between 1917 and 1957. It investigates the ideas of a wide range of intellectuals from across the continent. It examines the relationship between ideas of Europe and ...
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Stars and stardom in brazilian cinema
First book-length broad study of stardom in Brazilian cinema in either Portuguese or English. Its historical scope makes it particularly important – the chapters cover the evolution of stardom as a phenomenon in Brazilian cinema from the silent era to the present day. Its combination...
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Poverty and welfare in modern german history
A long term perspective on Welfare and Poverty. Focuses on the politics of inclusion and the effects of exclusion. Relinks the historical studies of Poverty to debates on the German Welfare State Model.
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Sustaining russia's arctic cities
One of the first books to deal with urban sustainability in the Arctic Careful analysis of the development of the Russian Arctic and the consequences of that development model A multi-disciplinary analysis of Arctic urban development Integrative analysis of Arctic resource develo...
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War magic
Investigates spiritual warfare in religion, magic, sorcery and shamanism. Reveals war magic and warrior religion in contemporary and historical circumstances. Shows the broad, international appeal of symbolic and ritual violence, in the east and west. Research into embodied perfo...
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Starry nights
Critiques the postmodern tenets of anthropology, while articulating a new strategy for conducting research. Provides an important critique of mainstream anthropology as represented by Geertz and the postmodern legacy. Envisions a mode of anthropological research that addresses social...
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Against exoticism
Offers a re-evaluation of the role of the exotic in anthropology. Introduces the notion of counter-exoticisation, a conceptual tool to aid analysis. Extends the academic critique of Orientalism to de-territorialise the exotic and de-centre Euro-centrism. Presents a new interventi...
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Consuming the inedible
Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psych...
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Cutting and connecting
Cutting and Connecting rethinks anthropology’s comparative endeavor by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. The contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent anthropological ...
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The total work of art
Demonstrates how the lineage and legacies of Gesamtkunstwerk (the ideal of the "total work of art") extend well beyond German Romanticism. Eleven compact essays trace the idea’s evolution in German-speaking Europe. Provides a broad perspective on a distinctively modern cultural form.
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International organizations and environmental protection
Historical overview of international organizations and environmental policy until Stockholm 1972. First treatment of diversity of international organisations’ involvement in environmental policy. International organisations and the pre-history of the climate change negotiations. ...
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